On the whole, a pretty good stab! As an East Midlander, I particularly liked your pronunciation of Nottingham. In the UK we tend to call the foil something more like 'ala-minium' which is easier to say than 'alu-minium. 'Buoy' is pronounced the same as 'boy' Actually, 'Berkshire' is pronounced 'Bark -shir'
Worcestershire is easy wuster-sheer. Cester is ancient Roman on its own or starting a word pronounced but in a word often shortened. Cirencester is the real pain for pronunciation - siren-sester.
And it's NOT the same as tinfoil. Tin and alumin(i)um are two very different metals! It's very unlikely that you'd come across tinfoil anywhere nowadays.
Yes, I've always been puzzled by Americans struggling with the shires as you already have New Hampshire as an example. Americans can't always agree on pronunciations amongst themselves though. In the song Meet me in St. Louis they use the French pronunciation but people who live there pronounce it St. Lewis.
Yeah, I pronounce it with a hard Y sometimes, I think it sounds for want of a better word, proper. Though it sounds fine as you said. Either way there is a very heavy stress on the 'or' sound when most Americans say it. Same with mayonnaise. But I actually wanted to just push back slightly (if I'm reading your comment correctly). If not feel free to tell me to take a hike! You can't dictate how an American says mayor. It's an American English word in its own right.
Nice job! One other word that's pronounced differently and really annoys me when Americans talk about football, is Premier, as in Premier league. It's not PremEER, it's PREMier.
If you mean without an E at the end, that's hardly a 'hard and fast' rule. I'd warrant hard and fast rules are practically non existent in the spelling of any language ever. Esperanto and Java Script being obvious exceptions! If having exceptions disqualified a language or made it inherently silly... Bee, Cee, Dee, Eee, Gee... etc Zed?🤔 Maybe there's some 'Outer Circle' English speaking land where they pronounce W as Weeeeeee!
@@carlhartwell7978 relevance? The extra letter you're putting in is in the middle. Either a Y or I is needed to change the A. By the way it's Ex, Why, Zed so where does your E therefore come into it?
Yeah I mis explained a little. Usually a so called 'magic E' turns a 'ah' into an 'ay' right? So you're asking why Americans pronounce it 'ay' in basil right? Now re read my comment. I'm not saying it necessarily makes sense. But neither do MANY sounds spoken by native Brits. And not just because of accents. I can see why you find Zed more natural/familiar, but it's not more rational. I omitted Pee, Tee and Vee so as to not labour a point, but there you go. Ex, Why, Zee sounds perfectly fine to me, but I'm open minded and care very little in my old age.Language always has and always will evolve.
@@carlhartwell7978 It's really weird. You are arguing English pronunciation with an English person from an Americanised perspective. Go teach Spanish to the Spanish or do you think it's Mexican ...
@@daveofyorkshire301 Well, I'm advocating for American English yes. Spanish and Mexican are just two other very related languages. Along with other European derived languages, being related to each other through Latin. Let me ask you a question. Do you hope to eventually persuade all 300+M Americans to use precisely the same words pronounced in the same way as we do in Britain, despite our varying accents?
American English as you speak it is the result of Webster (of Webster's Dictionary) simplifying the spelling, and hence the pronunciation of the original English ...he eliminated a lot of letters such as 'u' (ex color instead of colour).. You say 'erb (a kind of French pronunciation) and we say Herb......because there is an 'H' in it !!!!! Language is always changing and evolving......it's good fun !!!!
Up until late Georgian, early Victorian times we pronounced all words beginning with an H the French way as a silent letter, East Londoners still do and the upper classes use a very soft almost silent H. An exhaled breath almost.
@@brianmcdonald1776 Yes a lot of Norman French in our language along with every ancient European language, very prevalent in regional dialects and place names. The French have even taken some of them back, unofficially of course. A lot of legal terminology is Norman based, the first nationwide legal system after the Romans departed.
Llanfair P.G. (as it's more commonly known) is a name that was made up by Victorian entrepreneurs in an effort to promote tourism in Anglesey. It didn't really work, but left a legacy of the longest station name.
I live in Worcestershire and you nailed it. I believe in long gone days Derby was spelt Darbye and that’s where the pronunciation comes from. Have you tried LEOMINSTER. that’s pronounced LEMSTER luckily I can pronounce Llanfair PG as I’m Welsh and I did guess he sent you that 😂😂
You do good ,English is a pain for silent letters ,For Birmingham locals shorten it 'Brum' ,a tip for Welsh language pronunciation the single F has the same sound as the V in English ❤❤.
As an English teacher, one of the biggest differences is how Americans pronounce their syllables. There is a special word for this but it eludes me for the moment
Aluminum was the original spelling/pronunciation of it, but it was paired with soft metals like sodium and such in the Periodic Table because that is where it belongs when grouping them. Hence why it is spelt and pronounced like that; America knew the memo, but chose not to take it up for some reason.
BRITISH people. Not just English people !! ROUTE. WE say root. YOU say rowte ! ALUMINIUM and ALUMINUM are two different words for the same thing ! They are spelled differently. BOUY = BOY. BERKSHIRE = BARKSHUR. DERBYSHIRE=DARBYSHUR.
Aluminium is spelt differently, the discoverer renamed it to match the others he discovered and being 1812 the USA wasn't about to change. Aluminium was not discovered in its pure form in nature, but rather was isolated through chemical processes. The credit for the creation of aluminium goes to: Humphry Davy discovered it in 1808 and named it aluminum but later renamed it to match the other the other element he discovered. _derived from the Latin word “alumen,” referring to alum, a mineral containing aluminum oxide. However, Davy later revised his naming to “aluminum” in his 1812 book “Elements of Chemical Philosophy". • Calcium (by electrolysis) • Strontium (by electrolysis) • Barium (by electrolysis) • Magnesium (by electrolysis) • Potassium (by electrolysis, deriving it from caustic potash (KOH)) • Sodium (by electrolysis) Being at war with the British, America never got the memo or never read it, and never adjusted afterwards...
Welsh extends the alphabet by pairing letters to create different sounds not used in English. The native Irish and Scottish language do this as it's all Gaelic from their Celtic origins.
Yes, the English way of speaking is different from the American way, but, without realizing it, you are making fun of a whole nation. Perhaps, less laughing, or explain that the laughing is directed at yourself. Please respect others.
I have some ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΡΙΓΑΝΗ which is translated to English as Cypriot RIGANA or, in English, oregano. The UK pronunciation matches the original Greek word better as the USA accent the E that is not in the original name.
Berkshire is pronounced "bark" at the start, not "berk". Like "Hertfordshire" (pronounced "hart" at the start" and "Derby" (pronounced "darby"). You got Derbyshire right in the end.
Do you know why you say 'zee', instead of 'zed', like the rest of the world? (it comes from the Greek and Latin 'zeta', French 'zede'.) Because in the USA, you invented rhymes to teach children the alphabet - and it was made to rhyme with b, c, d, g and p. So that's how children ever since learnt the pronunciation.
I say zebra both ways. Buoy is boy. Route is root. Basil is also a boys name. I say Ken ya and keen ya for Kenya. Sorry to say I see your uploads and say oh Joan has uploaded a new video, Joan Hickson was an actress who played miss Marple on telly, miss Marple was an amateur detective created by Agatha Christie. She was a clever lady just like yourself.
we don't say rowt u do we say root 😊 one word that u say differently that I have never understood is the word "ASK" Americans pronounce is "AXESK" and that is everybody there !! lol
See that unbelievably long place name, it's a town in Wales. Only in Wales right.? No one, even most Welsh people can spell it let alone pronounce it. I am Irish we have plenty of stupid place names, but at least we keep them short, like Balls bridge for example
Not your fault. Blame Thomas Jefferson who instructed his "literary geniuses" to simplify the English language for Americans. So now we have all these different pronunciations and spelling and dictionaries. The only different one is Fillet coz you used the French fillay pronunciation when it was introduced to the USA with the Fillet Mignon steak. We understand USA English from all the great movies over the years. You guys have more problems with us as you are internally focused in your education. Not a complaint just an observation from going to the USA about 50 times usually for work. I did 30 years at IBM and Microsoft.
I come from Lancashire and I have never said Lancasheer as the Southerners do. Everyone I knew in Lancashire pronounced it as Lancasher or even Lankisher.
You need to learn the Welsh double L sound. That is a genuine town on Anglesey. Brave effort on the pronunciation. I was taught to say it by my Welsh grandmother. English folk are as bad at it as Americans, with far less excuse.
Why do you not pronounce the H in Herbs yet you would in other words beginning with H,, why are our words funny, we had them first and you lot changed them.
Ok, I stopped at 3 minutes in. You triggered me what I will say is the English language has been around for 1600 years, your Country.247 years, so that should tell you who is saying it the correct way.
We say mirror you say meer
We say bouy from buoyant not booey
We say school you say shooting range
You missed out warrior as woyer and solder as sodder.
@@martinconnelly1473 a common error = err during the war on terror = trrr was an absolute horror = horrrrrr
We say route as root, you say it as rowt.
But no one “ gets their kicks on ROUT 66” do they 🙄🙄 aghhhhhh…. 😖😖😖😖
But, we (UK) have wood working machines called routers that we pronounce ‘rowters’!
Thanks for telling me how I speak my own language.
On the whole, a pretty good stab!
As an East Midlander, I particularly liked your pronunciation of Nottingham.
In the UK we tend to call the foil something more like 'ala-minium' which is easier to say than 'alu-minium.
'Buoy' is pronounced the same as 'boy'
Actually, 'Berkshire' is pronounced 'Bark -shir'
It’s not British English, clue is in the name. It’s just English. It’s from England spoken by the English. It’s English and American English.
Worcestershire is easy wuster-sheer.
Cester is ancient Roman on its own or starting a word pronounced but in a word often shortened. Cirencester is the real pain for pronunciation - siren-sester.
"Aluminium" is spelt differently to the American "Aluminum." That's why we pronounce it as it is spelt.
And it's NOT the same as tinfoil.
Tin and alumin(i)um are two very different metals!
It's very unlikely that you'd come across tinfoil anywhere nowadays.
You nailed Wuster shur.
Yes, I've always been puzzled by Americans struggling with the shires as you already have New Hampshire as an example. Americans can't always agree on pronunciations amongst themselves though. In the song Meet me in St. Louis they use the French pronunciation but people who live there pronounce it St. Lewis.
Another one is Mayor.
No it's not said as May-Or.
It's pronounced the same as a female horse.
So "Mayors Walk" would be said as "Mare's Walk" !
Yeah, I pronounce it with a hard Y sometimes, I think it sounds for want of a better word, proper. Though it sounds fine as you said. Either way there is a very heavy stress on the 'or' sound when most Americans say it. Same with mayonnaise.
But I actually wanted to just push back slightly (if I'm reading your comment correctly). If not feel free to tell me to take a hike!
You can't dictate how an American says mayor. It's an American English word in its own right.
Nice job! One other word that's pronounced differently and really annoys me when Americans talk about football, is Premier, as in Premier league. It's not PremEER, it's PREMier.
How is basil pronounced bay-sil unless it had more letters.
If you mean without an E at the end, that's hardly a 'hard and fast' rule. I'd warrant hard and fast rules are practically non existent in the spelling of any language ever. Esperanto and Java Script being obvious exceptions!
If having exceptions disqualified a language or made it inherently silly... Bee, Cee, Dee, Eee, Gee... etc Zed?🤔
Maybe there's some 'Outer Circle' English speaking land where they pronounce W as Weeeeeee!
@@carlhartwell7978 relevance? The extra letter you're putting in is in the middle. Either a Y or I is needed to change the A.
By the way it's Ex, Why, Zed so where does your E therefore come into it?
Yeah I mis explained a little. Usually a so called 'magic E' turns a 'ah' into an 'ay' right?
So you're asking why Americans pronounce it 'ay' in basil right?
Now re read my comment. I'm not saying it necessarily makes sense. But neither do MANY sounds spoken by native Brits. And not just because of accents.
I can see why you find Zed more natural/familiar, but it's not more rational. I omitted Pee, Tee and Vee so as to not labour a point, but there you go.
Ex, Why, Zee sounds perfectly fine to me, but I'm open minded and care very little in my old age.Language always has and always will evolve.
@@carlhartwell7978 It's really weird. You are arguing English pronunciation with an English person from an Americanised perspective. Go teach Spanish to the Spanish or do you think it's Mexican ...
@@daveofyorkshire301 Well, I'm advocating for American English yes. Spanish and Mexican are just two other very related languages. Along with other European derived languages, being related to each other through Latin.
Let me ask you a question. Do you hope to eventually persuade all 300+M Americans to use precisely the same words pronounced in the same way as we do in Britain, despite our varying accents?
You got Worcestershire right, well done, that's a hard one for non natives
You did very well with Worcestershire! Phonetically, I would say Wooster sheer
American English as you speak it is the result of Webster (of Webster's Dictionary) simplifying the spelling, and hence the pronunciation of the original English ...he eliminated a lot of letters such as 'u' (ex color instead of colour)..
You say 'erb (a kind of French pronunciation) and we say Herb......because there is an 'H' in it !!!!!
Language is always changing and evolving......it's good fun !!!!
Up until late Georgian, early Victorian times we pronounced all words beginning with an H the French way as a silent letter, East Londoners still do and the upper classes use a very soft almost silent H. An exhaled breath almost.
@@tonys1636 ...possibly Norman French influence?......we should have kept our Anglo Saxon 'wyrt' (Wort...eg Ragwort and St. John's Wort)
@@brianmcdonald1776 Yes a lot of Norman French in our language along with every ancient European language, very prevalent in regional dialects and place names. The French have even taken some of them back, unofficially of course. A lot of legal terminology is Norman based, the first nationwide legal system after the Romans departed.
"Americans pronounce INCORRECTLY" the H in herb is NOT silent.
Beautiful use of 'taking the piss'. Do you use that in America or is it something that you've learned since moving here?
Well done! You are on the way to being a fluent Brit Mandy.
Llanfair P.G. (as it's more commonly known) is a name that was made up by Victorian entrepreneurs in an effort to promote tourism in Anglesey. It didn't really work, but left a legacy of the longest station name.
I live in Worcestershire and you nailed it.
I believe in long gone days Derby was spelt Darbye and that’s where the pronunciation comes from.
Have you tried LEOMINSTER. that’s pronounced LEMSTER
luckily I can pronounce Llanfair PG as I’m Welsh and I did guess he sent you that 😂😂
You do good ,English is a pain for silent letters ,For Birmingham locals shorten it 'Brum' ,a tip for Welsh language pronunciation the single F has the same sound as the V in English ❤❤.
As an English teacher, one of the biggest differences is how Americans pronounce their syllables. There is a special word for this but it eludes me for the moment
Vowel distortion, I simply call it.
Aluminum was the original spelling/pronunciation of it, but it was paired with soft metals like sodium and such in the Periodic Table because that is where it belongs when grouping them. Hence why it is spelt and pronounced like that; America knew the memo, but chose not to take it up for some reason.
BRITISH people. Not just English people !!
ROUTE. WE say root. YOU say rowte !
ALUMINIUM and ALUMINUM are two different words for the same thing ! They are spelled differently.
BOUY = BOY.
BERKSHIRE = BARKSHUR.
DERBYSHIRE=DARBYSHUR.
Aluminum was the original English spelling but somehow an extra I was added to become Aluminium, the scientific community kept it as Aluminum.
We pronounce Berkshire as "bark-sher", the same as we pronounce Derbyshire as "darby-sher". You're getting there though. Well done.
Basil is also males first name
Aluminium is spelt differently, the discoverer renamed it to match the others he discovered and being 1812 the USA wasn't about to change.
Aluminium was not discovered in its pure form in nature, but rather was isolated through chemical processes. The credit for the creation of aluminium goes to:
Humphry Davy discovered it in 1808 and named it aluminum but later renamed it to match the other the other element he discovered.
_derived from the Latin word “alumen,” referring to alum, a mineral containing aluminum oxide. However, Davy later revised his naming to “aluminum” in his 1812 book “Elements of Chemical Philosophy".
• Calcium (by electrolysis)
• Strontium (by electrolysis)
• Barium (by electrolysis)
• Magnesium (by electrolysis)
• Potassium (by electrolysis, deriving it from caustic potash (KOH))
• Sodium (by electrolysis)
Being at war with the British, America never got the memo or never read it, and never adjusted afterwards...
It might be my faulty memory, but I think Americans didn't drop the h in herb before the 90s.
There is no such thing as American English. There's English and there's wrong.
Buoy is said boy and allows us to make jokes about sailors clinging to boys.
Sailers like Seaman Staines?
I loved you trying to say aluminium, your breakup made you look a bit of 'a loony mum'
Welsh extends the alphabet by pairing letters to create different sounds not used in English. The native Irish and Scottish language do this as it's all Gaelic from their Celtic origins.
It's the name of a town on Anglesey
There is no such thing as British English it's just English.
As far as buoy is concerned. I've only ever heard it said precisely the same as boy, _b - oi._
Loving the preamble to your video.
I wont talk about the 'Crown Green bowling green that you passed. Im sure others will. Take care.
we laugh and smile as Americans say War-chester-shire Sauce. We laugh because despite what's on the label, we only ever call it Wooster Sauce.....
The Welsh word you tried to pronounce is real.
Why do you use the French pronunciation for herb and fillet which are correct, but then you pronounce route, another French word, incorrectly?
Yes, the English way of speaking is different from the American way, but, without realizing it, you are making fun of a whole nation. Perhaps, less laughing, or explain that the laughing is directed at yourself. Please respect others.
I have some ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΡΙΓΑΝΗ which is translated to English as Cypriot RIGANA or, in English, oregano. The UK pronunciation matches the original Greek word better as the USA accent the E that is not in the original name.
There's no such thing as 'British English'. It's just English, FFS!
Berkshire is pronounced "bark" at the start, not "berk". Like "Hertfordshire" (pronounced "hart" at the start" and "Derby" (pronounced "darby"). You got Derbyshire right in the end.
7:43 that’s a town in Wales if I’m not mistaken
Do you know why you say 'zee', instead of 'zed', like the rest of the world? (it comes from the Greek and Latin 'zeta', French 'zede'.)
Because in the USA, you invented rhymes to teach children the alphabet - and it was made to rhyme with b, c, d, g and p. So that's how children ever since learnt the pronunciation.
You're basically getting Worcestershire right, except don't try to pronounce the R sounds in it, cos we don't say those either.
I say zebra both ways.
Buoy is boy.
Route is root.
Basil is also a boys name.
I say Ken ya and keen ya for Kenya.
Sorry to say I see your uploads and say oh Joan has uploaded a new video, Joan Hickson was an actress who played miss Marple on telly, miss Marple was an amateur detective created by Agatha Christie. She was a clever lady just like yourself.
English vs American English 😉
we don't say rowt u do we say root 😊
one word that u say differently that I have never understood is the word "ASK" Americans pronounce is "AXESK" and that is everybody there !! lol
See that unbelievably long place name, it's a town in Wales. Only in Wales right.? No one, even most Welsh people can spell it let alone pronounce it. I am Irish we have plenty of stupid place names, but at least we keep them short, like Balls bridge for example
Not your fault. Blame Thomas Jefferson who instructed his "literary geniuses" to simplify the English language for Americans. So now we have all these different pronunciations and spelling and dictionaries. The only different one is Fillet coz you used the French fillay pronunciation when it was introduced to the USA with the Fillet Mignon steak. We understand USA English from all the great movies over the years. You guys have more problems with us as you are internally focused in your education. Not a complaint just an observation from going to the USA about 50 times usually for work. I did 30 years at IBM and Microsoft.
We just say Gogo goch.
We don't say sher, we say sheer, exactly as in New Hampshire. Worcestershire is Woostersheer. You got it.
I come from Lancashire and I have never said Lancasheer as the Southerners do. Everyone I knew in Lancashire pronounced it as Lancasher or even Lankisher.
I’ve never said sheer. I live in Worcestershire which I say shur on the end.
@@helenwood8482 I've never heard anyone say 'sheer'. 'Shire' 'shur' or 'shir', bit never 'sheer'.
When in doubt, say Wuster Sauce.
You say Adidas but we say Adidas.
You need to learn the Welsh double L sound. That is a genuine town on Anglesey. Brave effort on the pronunciation. I was taught to say it by my Welsh grandmother. English folk are as bad at it as Americans, with far less excuse.
Try Mousehole i dare you
FOOTBALL ⚽ AMERICANS call it the S word
Iron, irony, mirror.
Jagwah..Jag you are
Kneesun.. Nis Anne
Meer..Mirror
Booey...Boy
Just a few that make me cringe..😂
us brits say herb, we and u americans say erb, which is pure lazyness on your part. and when i say your part i mean americans on the whole.
You got route arse about. x
Why do you not pronounce the H in Herbs yet you would in other words beginning with H,, why are our words funny, we had them first and you lot changed them.
Cute 😍
We sha not sher
Ok, I stopped at 3 minutes in. You triggered me what I will say is the English language has been around for 1600 years, your Country.247 years, so that should tell you who is saying it the correct way.
Sorry to trigger you but when did I ever say there was a “correct” way to pronounce any of these words?
Why do you think it necessary to use the F word when you talk. Nasty😢 and disgusting behaviour.